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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DAVID WVARK, OF MOUNT VERNON, NE\V YORK.

MOVEMENT-CURE AFPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 349,019, dated September 14, 1886.

i Application filed Dceemberi, 1885. Serial No. 185,010. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, DAVID WARK, of Mount Vernon, in the county of Vestchester and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Movement-Cure Apparatus; and I hereby declare the following to be afull and clear description thereof.

The object of this invention is to produce an apparatus for manipulating or rubbing different parts of the human body.

The invention consists in the combination of a belt or strip of any textile fabric or other suitable material with an actuating mechanism, to which the ends of the said belt or strip are secured, and by which it is moved alternately in opposite directions, so as to perform the necessary rubbing operation to any part of the human body which may be placed within the loop of and in contact with the belt or strip.

The invention will be readily understood by reference to the accompanying drawings, of which Figure I is a side elevation of the improved machine. Fig. If is a plan view thereof.

The machine or apparatus is supported on a frame, A, of any suitable construction. This frame carries a driving-shaft, B,which is provided with a crank, I), and a wheel, b, by which to drive it, the former being used where the machine is operated by hand, and the latter where it is operated by power. It should also have a balance-wheel, b but this is not indispensable. There mustbe a crank-pin, b affixed to and projecting from the outer face of the fly-wheel, or from some other suitable mechanism attachedto the shaft B. Apitman or connecting-rod, O, connects the crankpin b with acrank-pin, d, on the roclcshaft D, or on a suitable crank or attachment therewith connected. The crank-piu d is placed at a greater radial distance from the center of the shaft D than the crank-pin b is from the center of the shaft B, so that the effect of rotating the driving-shaft B is to rock the shaft D forward and backward by means of the connecting-rod or pitman O. The rock-shaft D carries an arm, D, which extends radially from the shaft D equally in both directions from the axis of the shaft; or, in lieu of this radial arm, a cylinder may be placed on this rock-shaft, as shown by the dotted lines in Fig. 1. A manipulating strap or band, E, of textile fabric or any other suitable flexible material, and of any desired length or width, has its ends securely fastened to the arm D, (or to the equivalent cylinder or drum used in lieu of said arm.) as shown in Fig. 1. The open loop of the strap orband Eis then thrown around the body or limb of the patient, as desired, and the patient moved from the machine sufficiently to tighten the belt or band, and then the machine set in operation by rotating the shaft B by its crank or drivingwheel, and the rocking motion communicated to the shaft D is transmitted to the belt or strap E in a series of quick reciprocating movements, first in one direction and then the other, and in this way any or .all parts of the body may be thoroughly manipulated or rubbed, as desired.

Having described my invention, I claim- 1. The combination, with a rook-shaftprovided with a radial arm and means for operating said rock-shaft, of a strap of flexible material connected with said radial arm on opposite sides of the rock-shaft, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The flexible rubbing-band E, the vibrator D, rock-shaft D, connecting-rod O and its attaching-cranks b d, and the rotary driving-wheel b", combined substantially as described, so as to form a frictionalmanipulator, as set forth.

DAVID \VARK. lVitnesses:

P. L. MOOLELLAN, CLARENCE S. McGLELLAn'. 

